News from the North: Boulder Junction, Wausau, Minocqua

Children play with coloring books at the 2011 Zoo Boo at Wildwood Wildlife Park in Minocqua.

New and improved

Boulder Junction might soon be getting a new community center.

The community's planning committee has drawn up plans for a $2.3 million, 14,000-square-foot building that would replace the current facility, which houses the public library, town offices, police department and meeting rooms.

The town's residents voted down plans for a $3.5 million community center in 2009. The current facility was built in the 1950s, with an addition constructed in 1990.

Permanent Boulder Junction residents will vote on the new center Thursday. If they approve it, construction will begin in spring.

Fairs and fests

WAUSAU

Take a visual and aural tour of Bali with Indonesian music and dance troupe Cudamani at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at The Grand theater, 401 N. Fourth St. Cudamani combines traditional Balinese music and dances to bring to life tales of gods, heroes and the cosmos in Balinese mythology. Tickets are $15, $19, $25 and $29 and can be purchased online at www.grandtheater.org, at the ticket office or by phone at 888-239-0421.

Information: Call 715-842-0988 or visit www.grandtheater.org.

MINOCQUA

Trick-or-treat your way around the zoo at the sixth annual Zoo Boo, a family-friendly Halloween event at Wildwood Wildlife Park. Festivities include games, crafts, a haunted reptile house and a costume contest, running from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Wildwood Wildlife Park, 10094 Highway 70 West. Tickets are $8 for people 12 and older; children 11 and younger get in free with a donation of a nonperishable food item.

The southbound on-ramp to Highway 51 from Maple Ridge Road will remain closed until November. The northbound off-ramp to Maple Ridge Road is closed until mid-October. Single lane closures on Highway 51 ended in late September, but closures on Maple Ridge Road and Business Highway 51 are still possible.

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